 | The Sisters Brothers
Release Date: February 14, 2012 Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die, and hired guns Eli and Charlie Sisters will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's goldmining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living—and whom he does it for....
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 | Awake and Singing: Seven Classic Plays from the American Jewish Repertoire; Vl.1
Release Date: January 1, 1995The first volume in a two-volume anthology presents the history and evolution of Jewish plays, focusing on plays written by Jews about Jews in America and featuring seven classics produced between 1920 and 1960, from Clifford Odets to Neil Simon....
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 | Blackout (The Newsflesh Trilogy)
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Series: The Newsflesh Trilogy (Book 3) Rise up while you can. -Georgia MasonThe year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.The year was 2039. The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Georgia and Shaun Mason set out on the biggest story of their generation. The uncovered the biggest conspiracy since the Rising and realized that to tell the truth, sacrifices have to be made.Now, the year is 2041, and the investigation that began with the election ...
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 | Defender (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: April 7, 2009| Series: Berkley Sensation The sizzling first book in the DarkOps Defenders series.When a USO boat goes down in flames, pilot JimmyGage pulls a scantily clad Chloe Nelson out of sharkfilledwaters. Chloe isn’t looking for a jet-jock to beher bodyguard—until she finds herself side by sidewith Gage on a dangerous mission....
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 | Great Dialogues of Plato
Release Date: March 4, 2008| ISBN-10: 0451530853 | ISBN-13: 978-0451530851Written in the form of debates, Great Dialogues of Plato comprises the most influential body of philosophy of the Western world—covering every subject from art and beauty to virtue and the nature of love. ...
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 | The Secret Garden
Publication Date: April 8, 2012The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett ...
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 | Anthologie De La Litterature Francaise : Des Origines a La Fin du Dix-Huitieme Siecle
Release Date: April 12, 1990| ISBN-10: 0195062760 | ISBN-13: 978-0195062762| Edition: 3 The main change from the previous edition is the substitution of Moliere's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" for "Le Misanthrope". ...
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 | Early English Drama: An Anthology (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Publication Date: March 3, 1993| ISBN-10: 0824054652 | ISBN-13: 978-0824054656| Edition: 1 This collection of plays from late-medieval England includes a rich selection of noncycle plays and morality plays along with some of the better-known pageants from the cycle plays and some theatrical fragments never before anthologized. These plays and fragments illustrate the most widespread early theatrical practices in England and represent drama that fed directly into the Elizabethan theatrical experience. ...
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 | Ecce Homo
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 | Birdbaths and Paper Cranes
Release Date: August 1, 2002Syndicated columnist Randall's writing style is intensely personal and unmistakably authentic, as if she were writing a letter to a trusted friend. She shares stories of how her blind brother once tried to drive a car; her sister lost a wig on a bumper car ride; her husband coached basketball while battling cancer; and her oldest child grew up to be "not a real doctor, but play one on TV." In Randall's hands, even stories about ordinary things-from a broken birdbath to a rusty porch swing to a thousand paper cranes—all shine with extraordinary meaning and gr...
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 | From Hitler's Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942-1945
Publication Date: August 1, 1996For three years during World War II, future Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles commanded the OSS mission in Bern, Switzerland. From Hitler's Doorstep provides an annotated selection of his reports to Washington from 1942 to 1945. Dulles was a leading source of Allied intelligence on Nazi Germany and the occupied nations. The messages presented in this volume were based on information received through agents and networks operating in France, Italy, Austria, Eastern Europe, and Germany itself. They deal with subjects ranging from enemy troop strength ...
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 | Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy
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 | Lessons of Desire
Release Date: September 25, 2007Handsome, suave, and carnal as the devil, Lord Elliot Rothwell awaits readers in Lessons of Desire, bestselling author Madeline Hunter’s latest book in the Rothwell series and her most provocative novel to date. A man used to getting what he wants, Elliot is every woman’s most secret fantasy in the living flesh.He first appears beneath her prison window as her savior—a sinfully attractive man whose charm and connections have ensured her release from an unjust arrest. But author and publisher Phaedra Blair quickly learns that the price of h...
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 | Eye of the Beholder
Release Date: August 5, 2008Paul Riley has built a lucrative career based on his famous prosecution of Terry Burgos, who gruesomely murdered six girls. Now, fifteen years later, the police are confronted with a new series of murders and mutilations. Riley realizes that the two cases are connected and finds himself at the center of a police task force—as an investigator…and a suspect.Watch a QuickTime trailer for this book. ...
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 | Spider Light
Publication Date: April 28, 2008Following a shattering and exceedingly public personal tragedy, Antonia Weston moved to the sleepy town of Amberwood seeking peace and anonymity. As she struggles to rebuild her life, Antonia finds herself increasingly fascinated by the macabre history surrounding the town. The abandoned watermill, Twygrist, with its brooding darkness, and the now-vanished Latchkill Asylum—where, a hundred years ago, the unfortunate inmates suffered gruesome fates—both pique her interest. Eventually, however, Antonia's obsession with the linked histories of Twygrist ...
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 | Overkill
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 | The Dashiell Hammett Tour: Thirtieth Anniversary Guidebook (The Ace Performer Collection series)
Publication Date: March 1, 2009| Series: The Ace Performer Collection series Expanded and revised, this 30th-anniversary edition guides readers over the fog-shrouded hills stalked by Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and other legendary characters created by San Francisco’s most famous mystery writer, Dashiell Hammett. Detailing locations of interest, including all of Hammett’s known residences and the majority of settings from The Maltese Falcon, this guidebook contains maps, self-guided tours, and photographs of Hammett-related locations from both then and now. A new preface by Jo...
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 | Lies and Other Tall Tales
Release Date: October 11, 2005| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and upLIES AND OTHER TALL TALES These tales are so tall they touch the sky! From Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers and Zora Neale Hurston. While traveling in the Gulf States in the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston collected and recorded some real whoppers told by folks from all walks of life. Not "dog ate my homework" kind of lies, but tales so wild you didn't ever want to hear the truth. And now today's picture–book readers can enjoy these far–fetched fibs, with Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers's sp...
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 | Nadia Comaneci: Perfect 10
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 | Oranges to Orange Juice
Publication Date: March 2003| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up Does chocolate really come from beans? How are crayons made? In this fun and informative series, curious readers will discover how some of their favorite products are made from start to finish. ...
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